The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. —Mark 1.12-13 “Spirit,drive me out into my solitude,my desolations,my discomfort. Set me down among the wild beasts,fears and hungerspawing around inside me. Put me at…
“Put your body where the light is…”A Lenten Prayer by Sarah Are I have come to believeThat it’s harder to cry under an open sky.So when life falls apart, throw open the windows.Invite the sun into your shadows.Lie in the grass and let the sun mistake you for flowers.Maybe this is step one in cultivating—For…
Matthew 27:46: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” REFLECTIONForsaken: left all alone, tossed aside, rejectedMy God, why?This fourth word is among the hardest to hear. Jesus – the one who so closely communed with God that people knew God through him, felt God’s love and grace and healing just by being near…
Lenten Reflection on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21“A couple of years ago we did a water ritual at a summer Sunday service. When the time came, people began to line up at my station. “You are a new creation.” After around thirty people, a child appeared. I knelt to meet her as I have for years in…
Lenten Prayer by Bill Wallof Father God, we thank you for a love so powerful that you sent your Son that we might have a light to show us a way out of the darkness of the prisons we create for ourselves. We thank you that you have not left us alone in cells of…
Lenten Devotion by Rev. Dan DeBevoise Jeremiah 7:21-34, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt…
“Dear Lord descend upon usdwell with us and within usdeepen our awareness Dear Lord keep us counsel uscare for us Dear Lord we ask these things to make our way through this daywith hearts wide open to whomever we meetwith minds quick to find ways to serve in compassion Dear Lord may the beauty of the earth remind us of…
A Lenten Prayer by Bill Wallof Father God, we praise you for your son Jesus Christ.-We thank you for the kindness and wisdom we see in his life as he dwelt amongst us.-We thank you for his humility and how he did not play to the favor of the crowd or appeal to the use…